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Brian Hubert

With ideas that could turn empty crisp bags into cheap computer memory Brian Hubert, winner of the 2001 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for Inventiveness, should be the first person cloned — this is a guy we need more of.

When the Chinese government wanted to keep its users off Facebook and Google, it blocked the entire country's access to the U.S. companies' apps and sites. And when citizens started using third-party workarounds — like Tor, proxies and VPNs...